CBA is a process that results in increasing core competencies essential to enhancing the delivery, effectiveness and sustainability of HIV prevention with an organization, community, or tribe. CBA can be provided on several levels and can increase the knowledge, skills, and abilities of individuals, organizations, tribes, and communities.

The NSHAPP uses a variety of mechanisms to effectively implement and deliver CBA. These mechanisms include:

Information Transfer - The NSHAPP shares local, regional and national HIV information through newsletters, technical reports, conference announcements, and a list serve.

Skills Building Training - The NSHAPP provides training to increase and improve the skill sets of key HIV personnel or community members whose activities contribute to increasing the HIV capacity of an organization, tribe, or community.

Technical Consultation - The NSHAPP provides expert advise to individuals, organizations, tribes, and communities on how to accomplish a task or set of tasks that would improve the delivery and effectiveness of HIV prevention.

Technology Transfer - The NSHAPP assists individuals, organizations, and tribes to access products, methodologies, and techniques that would improve the delivery and effectiveness of their HIV prevention activities. This includes assisting with Internet navigation, development of training curriculum, and adoption of a new HIV intervention.

The NSHAPP delivers CBA through a process that begins with four broad components: 1) cultural competencies, 2) problem identification, 3) strategy development and implementation and, 4) monitoring and evaluation.

The NSHAPP strives to provide high quality comprehensive CBA to individuals, organizations, and tribes to decrease and eliminate the HIV disparity among American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiians. The NSHAPP often collaborates with other national partners such as the Native CBA Network and the HIV Community Planning Network to achieve its CBA goals.